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Cheaper Chips (3/5/98)
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And speaking of Intel, Wall Street is still feeling the aftershocks of their recent earnings warning, which knocked over ten points off Intel's stock price of 86 or so. In turn, most other technical stocks took a sudden downturn, as the NASDAQ likes to follow Intel. News of the decline is available from Wired, and just about everywhere else on the 'net.
So what does this have to do with the Celeron? According to analysts, the main reason that Intel's earnings are down is the massive growth of the low-end PC market. (Sound familiar? Like, perhaps, the same phenomenon that might be hurting Apple's sales?) While Intel's Pentium is the most well-known chip on the planet, it's apparently a little too expensive to put into these super-low-cost computers; alternate offerings from the likes of AMD and Cyrix are more cost-effective. The Celeron, essentially a stripped-down Pentium II, is Intel's attempt to produce a chip that is better suited to the needs of the sub-$1000 market.
Reality check: Just because Intel's earnings will likely be lower than analysts had originally predicted doesn't mean that they're in trouble. Their profits for this quarter are likely to hit ten figures; profits, mind you, not sales. We think they'll be around for a little while longer. ;-)
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 3/5/98 episode: March 5, 1998: It's Intel Day on AtAT! Did Apple plan Newton's demise with Intel last summer, in an intricate plot to revitalize its handheld line? Meanwhile, Intel readies a crunchy new chip infected with a less-than-compelling name, in an attempt to reverse their downward earning spiral caused by the growth of the sub-$1000 PC market...
Other scenes from that episode: 507: Murder Conspiracy (3/5/98) While we haven't written our own Newton conspiracy theory into the show yet, we're happy to report that Don Crabb's doing an admirable job in our stead. Don's boss Stuart helps craft a diabolical web of intrigue which casts Apple and Intel as co-conspirators in the plan to axe the Newton... 508: Low-Cal Snack, Anyone? (3/5/98) Who, in this modern world, hasn't heard of the Pentium? Darn near no one, right? Thanks to the miracle of television and the near-boundless advertising budget of Intel, even people who have never seen a computer, much less used one, know that the Pentium is the thing that makes those shiny bunnymen so funky....
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